"Work on Android started before the release of the iPhone, and at the time Android was designed to be a competitor to the Blackberry. The original Android prototype wasn’t a touch screen device. Android’s rendering trade-offs make sense for a keyboard and trackball device. When the iPhone came out, the Android team rushed to release a competitor product, but unfortunately it was too late to rewrite the UI framework." (source: A. Munn's post on Google+)

my guts says ics will be lagless on the s2...Samsung just seems to know how to make a android smooth unlike others...also with one of the best processor and the fact that ics is more energy efficient and uses hardware acceleration I see no reason for it to lag on the s2 considering gingerbread does not have hardware acceleration...also I have tried ics aplha roms on the s2 and is super smooth so I will bet that the official one will be even better

agreedmy galaxy s2 and all my friends galaxy s2 phones are lagless also. Working for a phone network i test alot of phones and i can say the galaxy nexus,htc sensations,sony arcs and many others are lagless.

This article is a surprisingly poor from PA,maybe some android jealously behind it

My Samsung Captivate is lagless with a custom ROM of course. Its a KK4 Samsung leaked ROM thats been tweaked but even with third party apps I'm amazed at its speed of operation. Most other ROMs have had lag in browser, for example.

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You are not first, you are showing the mindlessness of iphone users... Just kidding =P, but there are many reasons why android is better than iphone other than lag, I bet a lot of people will name those for you, so I won't bother, and the reason to have dual core processors is to reduce the lag noticeably, even though it doesn't rid it completely, so it is still definitely worth having.

if you tap and hold into the Safari window while it’s loading a webpage, the loading process stops, as UI rendering has the highest priority and takes over. The result is that the webpage will not load until you lift your finger off, but the UI will remain buttery smooth all the time. Android has a radically different approach - it will try to maintain a reasonable response rate for the UI and load the webpage, but often the framerates would drop causing a visible lag.
Sounds like a dumbphone.

Forgive me if I am not understanding the point behind this...If you are able to "tap and hold the safari window to stop the webpage from loading and allow the UI to run buttery smooth" If you are in the safari window and you stop a web page from loading then won't you be starring at a webpage that isn't loading and a screen that isn't changing so I would assume that there aren't any parts of the UI that you would be able to see run "buttery smooth".

Very good read, the source article explained the reason and reasons that the problem is not solved very well, as well as rectifying a few misconceptions I never even knew I had about android. Thanks PA!

Call me when this "lag" starts impacting the ability of the OS to be productive. Till then "woe is me" I guess. I'm just not one to flick across and up and down a screen and be tickled by how smooth something appears...because I'm not a blithering idiot and have bigger things to worry about.
That goes for all mobile operating systems, not just android.

A great article PA! Hope that google fixes those problems :/
I'm no expert so I must ask, could google fix all of these problems with a big update of android and still support all those apps it does now?

The problem is that if you actually want your system resources to be evenly distributed in order to keep everything running as well as possible, you can't assign special priority to keeping the UI smooth. Android: better at multitasking, not quite as good at UI smoothness. iOS: better at UI smoothness, not so good at multitasking.

A dropped framerate isn't really lag. But I understand the issue better now. It doesn't really matter to me; I don't need my phone to be buttery smooth all the time. Sure, it'd be nice, and Android is actually pretty damn smooth now, but my top priority when choosing a phone is thus:

Does the smartphone do what I want it to do? Does it fulfill my needs? And does it fulfill them more efficiently than competing phones?

So my needs are:

A phone that is reasonably durable, has good call quality and reception, has a good amount of storage for apps, music and other media, is customizable so I can optimize it for my lifestyle, keeps me up to date on weather and my social media, and helps me navigate the real world.

Android phones are tougher than the iPhone, generally have better call quality and reception, some have the same internal space as an iPhone (with the option to expand with memory cards), allow me to change virtually everything about icon placement/appearance, and widgets stream information in real time without me having to go into separate apps. They also come with free navigation software, a capability which all other OSes lack.

I'm not saying that you can't eventually accomplish the same with iOS or Windows Phone 7, but let's face it, their solutions aren't always as elegant (for instance, the lack of native navigation software). Android as a whole package just adds up more than its competitors.

Some people have different priorities than I do. I get that. The iPhone appeals best to those to whom aesthetics is absolutely key. It has to look its prettiest or it's automatically s**tty. See, I'm weird. I'm able to find the beauty in some pretty ugly looking things. The industrial, robotic, angular designs of many Android phones actually appeal to me more than the iPhone does. I'm also willing to live with the instances of lag if it means I get to keep everything else that I get from Android.

All right, I'm done rambling. Now all I have to do is wait for some jackass to make some shallow remark about how I'm wrong, stupid, or whatever, without exactly quantifying why.

besides, i love a good "machine" look. i like smooth "liquid" style for some metals and a good machined look for others. favorite car? the super hard angled and machined 89 lamborghini. It really depends on the subject to which i prefer.. :)

as far as phones go, functionality first.. always. if it cant do the things i need it to do, who gives a heck if it looks pretty in my pocket. ITS IN MY POCKET. lol

As an iPhone 4 owner, I pretty much can't live without jailbreaking it. I jailbroke my phone on iOS4 and installed every tweak that existed. When iOS5 came out, I installed it right away. I knew it would kill my jailbreak, but didn't care because I really liked the new iOS5 features.

After a week or two, I missed my jailbreak (my most essential tweak I missed was one which allows you to go to previous/next song [long press volume buttons] and pause [hit both volume buttons simultaneously]. Great for in the car).

So, I jailbroke tethered and installed my most essential tweaks. Yeah, sometimes it's a little laggy when the camera opens and during other random tasks, but to me it's totally worth it for the customizability that jailbreaking brings.

Amen! to that. I don't have a problem with my Galaxy Tab 10.1, I use an iPhone as phone, even if I won iPad 2, I think I'd have sold it and buy me Tab 10.1, for me as an individual, Apple it's to strict and I feel like I'm limited to what my phone can do, buying iPad2 while I have an iPhone seems to be useless [it's like someone with an iPhone and they buy iPod Touch, like WTF?, cos iPhone is kinda build in iPod Touch {iPhone is like an iPod Touch that can make phone calls}, while iPad it's like super sized iPod Touch, so having an Android device I'm able to customize it to reflect me (while iDevide all looks the same). I'm a crazy Media Student, yet my iPhone looks like the iPhone of someone who wears a suite everyday[I hate suites] yet we're completely different ppl.

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